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Plato's penal code : tradition, controversy, and reform in Greek penology / Trevor J. Saunders.

Title: Plato's penal code : tradition, controversy, and reform in Greek penology / Trevor J. Saunders.
Author: Saunders, Trevor J. (Trevor John), 1934-1999
Publication: Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1991.

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Description

xvii, 414 p.; 25 cm.

Subject

Genre/Form

History
History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [362]-373) and indexes.

Processing Action (note)

committed to retain

Contents

Punishment in Homer -- Anxieties and surrogates -- Crime-specific punishments -- Historical practice and controversy -- Plato's medical penology -- The penology of Plato's myths -- The structure of Magnesia -- Homicide -- Wounding -- Assult -- Theft -- Impiety -- Military offences -- Offences in court -- Class distinctions in Plato's penal code -- Summary and assessment.

ISBN

0198148933

LCCN

^^^90049681^

OCLC

22542536
SCSB-10432414

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Harvard Library